Cerita Berantai yang Fatal
1. Sehabis pulang dari sawah, kerbau rebahan din kandang dengan wajah capek dan nafas yang berat. Datanglah anjing. Kerbau lalu berucap :
"Ahh teman lama, aku sungguh capek dan besok mau istirahat sehari".
2. Anjing pergi dan jumpa kucing di sudut tembok, dan berkata :
"Tadi saya jumpa kerbau, dia besok mau istirahat dulu.
Pantaslah, sebab boss kasih kerjaan terlalu berat sih".
3. Kucing lalu cerita ke kambing dan berkata :
"Kerbau komplain boss kasih kerja terlalu banyak & berat. Besok gak mau kerja lagi".
4. Kambing jumpa ayam dan berucap :
"Kerbau gak suka kerja untuk boss lagi, sebab mungkin ada boss lain yang lebih baik".
5. Ayam jumpa monyet dan berkata : "Kerbau gak akan kerja untuk bossnya dan ingin cari kerja di tempat yang lain".
6. Saat makan malam monyet jumpa boss dan berkata :
"Boss, si kerbau akhir-akhir ini sudah berubah sifatnya dan mau meninggalkan boss untuk kerja dengan boss lain."
7. Mendengar ucapan monyet, boss marah besar dan membunuh si kerbau karena dinilai telah mengkhianatinya.
Ucapan asli kerbau :
"SAYA SUNGGUH CAPEK, DAN BESOK MAU ISTIRAHAT SEHARI".
Lewat beberapa teman akhirnya ucapan ini sampai ke boss dan pernyataan kerbau telah berubah menjadi :
"Si Kerbau akhir-akhir ini telah berubah sifatnya dan mau meninggalkan boss untuk kerja dengan boss lain".
Sangat baik untuk disimak :
• Ada kalanya suatu ucapan harus berhenti (stop) sampai telinga kita saja. Tidak perlu diteruskan ke orang lain.
• Jangan percaya begitu saja apa yang dikatakan orang lain, meskipun itu orang terdekat kita. Kita perlu check & recheck kebenarannya sebelum bertindak.
• Kebiasaan melanjutkan perkataan orang lain dengan kecenderungan menambahi (mengurangi), bahkan menggantinya berdasarkan PERSEPSI SENDIRI bisa berakibat fatal.
• Bila ragu-ragu akan ucapan seseorang yang disampaikan via orang lain, sebaiknya kita langsung bertanya pada yang bersangkutan.
Bila ingin menyampaikan sesuatu kepada orang lain, baik juga memakai 3 kriteria yang harus dipenuhi :
- Apakah benar?
- Apakah baik?
- Apakah berguna?
Bila semua jawabannya "YA", sampaikanlah
In life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with your problems. If the possibility of failure were erased, what would you attempt to achieve?
The essence of man is imperfection. Know that you're going to make mistakes. The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does. Wake up and realize this: Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success.
Achievers are given multiple reasons to believe they are failures. But in spite of that, they persevere. The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business.
When achievers fail, they see it as a momentary event, not a lifelong epidemic.
Procrastination is too high a price to pay for fear of failure. To conquer fear, you have to feel the fear and take action anyway. Forget motivation. Just do it. Act your way into feeling, not wait for positive emotions to carry you forward.
Recognize that you will spend much of your life making mistakes. If you can take action and keep making mistakes, you gain experience.
Life is playing a poor hand well. The greatest battle you wage against failure occurs on the inside, not the outside.
Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?
Handicaps can only disable us if we let them. If you are continually experiencing trouble or facing obstacles, then you should check to make sure that you are not the problem.
Be more concerned with what you can give rather than what you can get because giving truly is the highest level of living.
Embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.
Everything in life brings risk. It's true that you risk failure if you try something bold because you might miss it. But you also risk failure if you stand still and don't try anything new.
The less you venture out, the greater your risk of failure. Ironically the more you risk failure — and actually fail — the greater your chances of success.
If you are succeeding in everything you do, then you're probably not pushing yourself hard enough. And that means you're not taking enough risks. You risk because you have something of value you want to achieve.
The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.
Determining what went wrong in a situation has value. But taking that analysis another step and figuring out how to use it to your benefit is the real difference maker when it comes to failing forward. Don't let your learning lead to knowledge; let your learning lead to action.
The last time you failed, did you stop trying because you failed, or did you fail because you stopped trying?
Commitment makes you capable of failing forward until you reach your goals. Cutting corners is really a sign of impatience and poor self-discipline.
Successful people have learned to do what does not come naturally. Nothing worth achieving comes easily. The only way to fail forward and achieve your dreams is to cultivate tenacity and persistence.
Never say die. Never be satisfied. Be stubborn. Be persistent. Integrity is a must. Anything worth having is worth striving for with all your might.
If we look long enough for what we want in life we are almost sure to find it. Success is in the journey, the continual process. And no matter how hard you work, you will not create the perfect plan or execute it without error. You will never get to the point that you no longer make mistakes, that you no longer fail.
The next time you find yourself envying what successful people have achieved, recognize that they have probably gone through many negative experiences that you cannot see on the surface.
Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.